DETAILS
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David
- Date
- 1812
ART MOVEMENTS
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THE ARTIST
Jacques-Louis David
1748–1825 · FranceDavid survived revolution, prison, and exile to paint Napoleon's glory — and still died the most influential artist in France.
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Further Works by David
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Andromache Mourning Hector
1783 · Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
1800 · Musée national de Malmaison et Bois-Préau
Head of a Child
1768 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Madame François Buron
1769 · Art Institute of Chicago
Patroclus
1780 · Musée Thomas-Henry
Young Woman with a Turban
1780 · Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul
1784 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre
Portrait of Madame Charles-Pierre Pecoul
1784 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre
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More works to explore
Beyond David and Academic art: works from the same years, and from the other movements General Baron Claude-Marie Meunier (1770–1846), the artist's son-in-law belongs to.
Same movement · Neoclassicism
Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1823 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
J. M. W. Turner · 1812 · National Gallery
Same era · 1790s–1820s
The Third of May 1808
Francisco Goya · 1814 · Museo del Prado
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818 · Hamburger Kunsthalle
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Male Academy Figure: Half-Length, Side View
Eugène Delacroix · 1819 · Karen B. Cohen Collection
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Conflagration of the Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Samuel Jones · 1819 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Samuel Fisher Bradford
Rembrandt Peale · 1803 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Sketchbook: Souvenir of Naples
Artist Unknown - The Mercat Cross, Aberdeen · 1821 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1790s–1820s
The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge)
John Philip Simpson · 1827 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1790s–1820s
The Children of the 13th Marquess
Thomas Stewardson · 1812 · Winchester Guildhall
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter (1775–1851), Lord Mayor of London (1811)
Samuel Drummond · 1813 · Guildhall Art Gallery
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Boy with an axe
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin · 1810 · Belarusian National Arts Museum
Same era · 1790s–1820s
Yachts of the Cumberland Society Racing on the Thames, circa 1815
William Havell · 1815 · Royal Museums Greenwich




